With a head start from inside an insect’s brain, brought to us by Stanley Heinze, we were given talks about new computational methods such as machine learning and AI to benefit nanoscience research, and using nanoscience to create new computational paradigms, including biological-, neuromorphic- and quantum computing. The programme chairs were Martin Leijnse and Jonas Tegenfeldt. Under the headlines Quantum, Bio, and Materials and Devices, the almost 200 participants were guided through an entire day of science, including a wondrous mingling poster session with more than 50 posters.
Awards given
The Excellent Support Award emphasizes the critical importance of the work done by NanoLund administrative and technical personnel, without which none of our research and teaching would be possible. We, therefore, wish to highlight and reward some of the great achievements and excellent work in this area.
- Alexander den Ouden, Research Engineer, Lund Nano Lab
- Alexandra Lindholm, Research Administrator, Department of Physics
The Young Teacher Award highlights the efforts of junior staff such as PhD students, postdocs, and other young researchers who are often crucial for the courses we teach and help form the impression undergraduate students have of our research environment.
Therefore, the Young Teacher Award is given to reward some of the many great teachers among our staff, and to emphasize the importance of the teaching efforts made by NanoLund researchers.
- Axl Ericsson, PhD student, Chemical Physics
- Frida Ekstrand, PhD student, Solid State Physics
- Harald Havir, PhD student, Solid State Physics
The NanoLund Junior Scientist Ideas Awards are selected based on the originality, quality, and impact of the project as judged across all research areas of NanoLund. Projects for this award are chosen from high-quality proposals for novel research projects that can be submitted by all the PhD students and postdocs at NanoLund.
- Florinda Viñas Boström, Post Doc, Solid State Physics: Magnon mediated topological superconductivity in nanowires – proximity effects from a conventional superconductor
- Matheus Gomes Ferreira, PhD student, Chemical Physics and Neus Allande Calvet, Post Doc, Chemical Physics: Surface-enhanced photoluminescence of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals by gold nanorods
- Esra Yilmaz, PhD student, Solid State Physics: An Invasion Model to Study Mechanical Memory of Cancer Cells
- David Wahlqvist, PhD student, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis: Mitigating electron beam effects through addition of hydrogen gas.
Poster Awards:
- Alexandr Marunchenko, PhD student, Chemical Physics: Memlumor: A Luminescent Memory Device for Energy-Efficient Photonic Neuromorphic Computing.
- Harald Havir, PhD student, Solid State Physics: Matching without needing to match, using non-linearities for charge detection.
- Hedda Christine Soland, PhD student, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis: Observing the transition from MnO to Mn_xAs_y using Lunds environmental TEM.
